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WRICOS OVERVIEW
The diverse languages and literature to be found along the Silk Road contribute and enhance the beauty of this region In order to recognize and celebrate this fact, SUN has decided to hold a writing contest for the students of SUN as an annual cultural event. We have named this contest WRICOS (The Writing Contest of SUN).
The main purpose of “Silk Road Writing Contest” is to promote and share the values and beauty of cultural diversity especially in languages across the land and maritime Silk Road areas. And other goals and purposes are to restore our pride in the Silk Road as a birth place for civilizations and to enhance mutual understanding as key medium for peaceful coexistence and prosperity of all human-beings.
Participants are supposed to write in their own languages poems or short essays regarding any topics related to the Silk Road and to send their writings to the Secretariat of SUN. Also, Participants’ writings are to be reviewed and selected by the review committee composed of the professors recommended by the presidents of the universities organizing the writing contest. The writings selected are to be awarded at the SUN General Assembly Meeting and to be translated in diverse languages by faculty members and students of the universities organizing the writing contest. The original writings selected and their translated version will be edited and published both as a printed as well as digital book.
This contest is held an annual event. The theme for the first contest in the year of 2017 is “What does the Silk Road mean to me?” The grand prize winner of Poem was Calyn Tan Jen Ai - University of Malaya, Malaysia and other grand prize winner of Essay was Leo Lin - Beijing University of Foreign Studies, China. And in this year, the theme of Poem of WRICOS 2018 is “Mother” and theme of Essay is “Any story or fairy tale about silk road in the author’s country”.
WRICOS 2019 The 3rd Writing Contest 2019 of SUN
SUN (Silk-road Universities Network) holds the 3rd WRICOS 2019 for the university students all around the world!
Detailed Schedule
| Submission Due | May 15.2019 |
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| Result Announcement | June 15. 2019 |
| Award Ceremony | September 20. 2019 during the closing ceremony of the 5th General assembly of SUN (Almaty, Kazakhstan) |
| Theme | Poem : “Father” |
| Essay : What should be done collectively by universities or university students in order to make the silk Roads Peace Roads? | |
| Categories | Poems or short essays written in the writers' own language. |
| Eligibility | Students from members of the Silk-road Universities Network (SUN) |
| Nonmembers of universities of SUN are eligible for application, but no additional other than certificates will be given. | |
| Basic rules & Regulations |
Each participant is to submit one poem or one short essay only. The writing must be original. Participants found guilty will be held liable for committing plagiarism. Length of writings: No more than 200 words for poems and 2000 words for essays Writing Computer Software: Participants are expected to create their writings using computer with any convenient writing software. They must be easily converted into MS Word format. |
Prize & Privilege
| Common privilege | Certificate of awards, Eligible to participation in the 5th General Assembly of SUN. In addition to being translated into at least five languages and being published in a book, the winning entries will be part of a digital exhibition displayed on the web site of SUN at least for one year. |
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| Grand prize - 1 Awardee |
Common privilege + Invitation to the award ceremony with full coverage of the cost for air ticket (round trip), accommodations (hotel and meals) at Almaty, Kazakhstan. |
| Excellence award - 2 Awardees |
Common privilege + Invitation to the award ceremony with partial support including accommodations (hotel and meals), and official tour of Almaty (air flight tickets to be borne by the participants) |
| Selection - 7 Awardees |
Common privilege + Invitation to the award ceremony with official tour of Almaty only (Air flight ticket and accommodation to be borne by the participants). |
How to apply
Fill out the application form available on the website of SUN (www.sun-silkroadia.org) and Email it along with your work to sunofficialwricos@gmail.com
Name of the work file should be the following.
[Category] name_name of the work_nationality
Example
[Poem] SeminShin_Mother_Republic of Korea
* If you do not write the name of the file like above, you may get a disadvantage in evaluation
| Hosted by |   |
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| Co-organized by | Beijing Foreign Studies University, China Imam Khomeini International University, Iran Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages, Kazakhstan Kazakh National Agrarian University, Kazakhstan Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea University of Bucharest, Romania Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia Uzbekistan State University of World Languages, Uzbekistan University of Social Sciences and Humanities-Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
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| Contact point | sunofficialwricos@gmail.com |
| Official Website of SUN | www.sun-silkroadia.org |
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